Rate My Professor Gretchen Comba

Comba authored the short story collection The Stillness of the Picture: Stories, published by Kore Press in 2016. Her short stories have been published in Salamander ("Goatman," issue 51, 2020–2021), storySouth ("Chessie: The Chesapeake Bay Sea Monster," issue 50, 2020), Alaska Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and The North American Review. She has also contributed scholarly work, including "William Maxwell" in Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature, edited by Jackson Bryer (Oxford University Press, 2017; updated Spring 2022), and "An ‘Unlikely’ Intersectionalist: Black Feminist Ethics in William Maxwell’s Time Will Darken It" in MidAmerica: The Yearbook of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature XL (2013): 124–139. Comba is the recipient of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Prize for Short Fiction and the Yemassee Award for Exceptional Contribution to the Magazine. In 2017, she participated in a reading for Virginia Commonwealth University’s Visiting Writers Series, featured in Blackbird.